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Recent years have brought significant changes to the political situation in Scotland. This new political situation has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in the languages and culture of Scotland.

Advances in computer technology have made it possible to store and analyse large quantities of information in ways which were previously unthinkable. As a result, in recent years much research in the Humanities has focused on the building of large text archives and corpora. Such resources offer exciting opportunities to study language on a broad scale and with a precision which would otherwise be impossible.